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sSUPERVERSIVE Beginning of Blue SF: Edison’s Conquest of Mars
Tuesday , 20, June 2017 Superversive 8 CommentsToday’s post is a guest post by Karl Gallagher, author of the critically acclaimed novel Torchsip and regular contributor to Superversive SF. One of the earliest hard SF novels is Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garrett Servis. It’s effectively an unauthorized sequel to HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, published in 1898. It’s actually a sequel […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Tuesday , 13, June 2017 Movies, Superversive Leave a commentToday’s post is a guest post by A.M. Freeman, author of the controversial short story “At the Edge of Detachment” from the anthology “Forbidden Thoughts”, co-host of the Whippersnappers Podcast, and a regular contributor at superversivesf.com. You can also follow her personal blog at lostinlalalandblog.wordpress.com Let me start out by saying that I have never […]
SUPERVERSIVE Miyazaki Retrospective: The Castle of Cagliostro
Wednesday , 7, June 2017 Superversive 19 CommentsThe Miyazaki Retrospective is nearly over. Spreading across three different websites and multiple authors, I’ve had a lot of fun using this semi-plausible excuse to go through the oeuvre of one of the great animators of all time. At this point, with only two films to go, we’ll go back to the beginning and take […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: “The Savage Boy”, by Nick Cole
Wednesday , 26, April 2017 Superversive 6 CommentsBack behind the scenes in our super-secret superversive headquarters located deep in the Misty Mountains, somewhere south of the Hundred Acre Wood and east of Oz (Narnia, of course, can only be accessed via Wardrobe), we had a discussion once about whether or not there could be such a thing as a superversive tragedy. The […]
Superversive Roundtable: The All-RPG Episode!
Tuesday , 25, April 2017 Superversive, Tabletop Games 1 CommentThe Superversive Roundable from this past Saturday was all about RPGs. This was a really interesting show for a lot of reasons, but I have to say the most mind blowing thing about it is that John C. Wright has been playing role-playing games for decades… without ever playing the ones that everybody else on the […]
Pulp Revolutionaries Discuss a Superversive Critique of Sword & Flower
Monday , 10, April 2017 Pulp Revolution, Short Fiction, Superversive 11 CommentsOver at the SuperversiveSF blog Castalia House blogger Anthony M has a couple posts breaking down his criticism of Castalia House blogger Rawle Nyanzi’s anime-fueled pulp story “Sword & Flower”. Now, there’s enough of a fundamental disagreement here that neither side is ever going to completely agree with the other. But for people on the […]
Note: This is an article I originally wrote for the Superversive blog way back in 2015; naturally nobody noticed. With the discussion about comics starting up again I thought it would be timely to bring it back. As I’ve made clear in the past, I’m a big fan of Netflix’s Daredevil, despite having never seen […]
So Daddy Warpig is busy attempting to shake the pillars of heaven. But come on, guys. Let’s be honest here. Lots of comments are coming through disagreeing, but Daddy Warpig is still talking to a mostly friendly audience. The Castalia Blog is the heart of the pulp revolution; even as many people object, more agree. […]
SUPERVERSIVE: Why “The Incredibles” is Better than Great
Tuesday , 21, March 2017 Superversive 10 CommentsI’ve already talked about “The Incredibles” once, but I think it’s worth talking more about it. Because here’s the thing. “The Incredibles” is not a good movie. It’s not even a great movie. It is a brilliant film. It’s one of the best movies of all time – and I am dead serious. It really […]
SUPERVERSIVE Retrospective: “Castle in the Sky”, Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Tuesday , 7, March 2017 Superversive 14 CommentsI was going to call this a review, but considering that it’s a film from the 80’s universally considered a classic it would sort of be like writing a “review” of “Casablanca”. It’s obviously not on quite that level (though certain Miyazaki films might be – if you haven’t seen “Spirited Away”, do so right […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: “Stardust”, by Neil Gaiman
Tuesday , 28, February 2017 Book Review, Superversive 29 CommentsNeil Gaiman is a guy who I’ve noticed gets a lot of flak around these parts. It is true he has SJW tendencies, but then, most authors do. And he IS immensely popular. Mostly – and I am going by anecdote here – it seems that people believe that he (along with Ursula Le Guin) […]
I come by my love of speculative fiction honestly: my parents. They both like and appreciate Science Fiction– and fantasy, to a lesser extent– and are actually fairly big consumers of Sci-Fi television and movies. Neither are what I’d call a nerd, exactly, but neither are they really mundanes. And maybe that’s why I find […]